Mat Armstrong got SCAMMED on his Murcielago project! 

Thanks so much for having me over!!

Finally the real story comes out!

I worked at Everyman Racing, and they treated me like trash. The guy who sold you the car used to bully me. He also used to stare at me and give me extreme anxiety. That company doesn’t deserve the costumers it gets, it’s filled with toxic people and it’s a shame to see how good employees are treated

It has been so much fun to see Mat's well-deserved success with these projects.

Rule of thumb, never try to scam or outhustle someone who is going to bring your shit to light to millions of people. That track company has gone from just a track experience company to a scam company for just 100,000 pounds. What a shame

I worked for said experience company as a photographer for almost a decade and I photographed this car so many times over the years. I know the car has been abused to hell and its the same as all of the cars that are in that hanger. The whole place is ran by a bunch of con artists that treat their customers like cattle. Everything is ran on a shoe string from the cars to the staff at that place. The events and offices are ran on fear and intimidation by the people at the top. They hire kids that love cars with dreams of glamour and the high life, pay them the bare minimum and work them like dogs. One of the worst places to work ever.

That track experience company is so unprofessional and should honestly be held accountable!!!

I remember watching Mat when he was a small RU-vidr with his Audi. The comeup is unreal and the interest in these types of videos has grown rapidly.

If you are listening to this guy for the first time, he and his father are some of the best guys on the internet when it comes to good wholesome entertainment as they work together to repair damaged vehicles. Compared to all the stupid crap that actually exists on the internet, this is one of the one redeeming channels that I enjoy watching that actually put a smile on my face as the two work hard together.

This was a huge project and it has been so much fun to see Mat knocking it out. Can't wait to see it reach the Gumball finish line!

Freddy’s kindness showed by helping Mat out. It’s too bad there were so many parts that didn’t come with the car but Mat & his dad did a great job restoring it.

Mat is without doubt one of the best RU-vidrs currently. His enthusiasm and ability to make consistently enjoyable videos is extremely difficult and he deserves every success he’s having and in the future. I look forward to the channel growing and watching future projects.

Mat's channel is the one I'm watching most right now. His builds and getting to see how family support him have been a true joy.

I'm glad to hear ppl are bugging the track experience company about this 💯

Right from episode 1 this was clearly a honey trap for Matt, but the perseverance from his Dad and himself has been great to watch. Great to see it tackled for what it is, and raised from the dead

Watching Mats content is a joy. Such a good guy with lots of positive energy and love for cars.

Good story. He put so much effort into that build.

Mat is a Rockstar in his rebuilding. Love the attitude of jumping in and figuring it out later! BANG ON BROTHER!!!

Big fan of Mat Armstrong! thanks for bringing him for an episode!

Mat the mileage should be on a EPROM chip A device called orange5 EPROM reader should be able to read the data. The chip should be voltage and reverse polarity protected.

I too used to work for Everyman and was at the track when it went through a fence into a field wiping the side of the car out hence the door! Last company I would trust, last company I would buy anything off and would rather retire from instructing than work for them ever again

Yo, Matt is one of my new favorite CarTubers. He laughs and smiles the whole damn time, it's the best hahaha

I used to work at this place. The yellow one never had the engine in it at some point it came back on a truck in bits. So probably wasn’t put back together properly either. Had a rats nest behind glove box too

I love Matt always positive and laughing in very disappointing moments. Thanks so much for having me over!!.

you can't not love Mat Armstrong's passion, hard work and he does it with a smile that's not just joyful, its also extremely interesting......

Im starting to think they intentionally "jumped it the wrong way" just to hide the true mileage perhaps. They didnt care if they fried the cluster, they were selling it and would gladly deduct a few grand for a "new cluster" rather than selling a murci with 100k miles or so.... hmm

Its great to see Matt finally get his flowers. His channel is nothing short of inspirational

Avoid that driver experience company like the plague. Spread the word about them.

“The mechanic went to prison for robbery.” The irony… Matt’s a legend and the story of this car and his journey with it only makes it more special

Good idea going with the Verde Ithaca car. Thanks for sharing the reality of the project.

Liking before even watching. Been watching Mat's Murcie rebuild along with the others as a recent subscriber and loving them!

Imagine selling mat a ringer with the following he has now,I bet that track day companies trust pilot/trip advisor has gone downhill 😂😂😂

Sometimes the journey makes the bond stronger. Bringing a formerly tracked car back to life isn’t the best decision financially but the experience is priceless. Great job!

Matt’s channel has been the only thing I always check every day for new content. The dude is truly in his happiness rebuilding cars and it makes the content that much better. If you’d asked me who I want to be when growing up I would have said Matt Armstrong 😂

Mat keeps it real, thus so relatable. Such a pleasure following all of his projects on yt,

A very honest interview. I suspected something was up with the company Mat got the car from, but stunned they were this bad. I’d love to know who they are to avoid them. Keep up the great work Mat.

Unbelievable how bad some of these scams are! Some people are ruthless when it comes to money. Pure lies & no remorse! Well done to Matt for getting the build this far!!! 👏🏼

I hope that everyone is bypassing the test track company 👍🏼

Never seen this bloke before or heard this story but I've instantly become a fan. Amazing story and an incredible rebuild. Mat seems like such a good hearted lad, the positive vibes are immaculate.

Admire Matt more each time he accomplishes each project and keeps moving forward. All the best to him and all his future endeavours.

The build has been wild, the story is just as crazy! The project with his dad is awesome.

Good on you for sticking with it & making it whole again, I did not know how much you were stuffed around by the place you got it from or there was a partition, I'd be interested to sign it for you & I'm sure my friends & their friends I have recommended your channel to would sign it in solidarity, cheers.

The gentleman is humble, tries to simply things and works hard. Good job mate.

Matt and his dad are truly amazing people who never give up. Inspiring.

Have to admire a person with that kind of passion and perseverance on any kind of project. His attitude at every issue was proceed and carry on with a smile. Not all of us are like that. It was a passion project that through thick or thin he will complete it.

I love this guy!! I hope for nothing but success for Matt in all he does. It has been cool watching his journey to this point.

Matt is so full of life its so fullfilling and joyful to watch him do his thing 👌🏻😊

Now HERE is a great, legit guest.

Literally soon as you saw it everything said just walk away. Fair play for having the character and resources to see it through hats off. 👍👍👍

I’ve watched the series from the beginning, but this was really fascinating to watch, and learn more about the on goings behind the scenes.

I'm glad your keeping it there's something sentimental about that car with your old man helping you out with the engine. Good on ya!

Halfway through my 1st rebuild....totally understand how things can go off the rails

I’m happy for you matey. You chased your dream. And it came true. Hard work can pay off , Fingers crossed it makes the full GB rally 🙏

This guy is amazing....just full of knowledge...if he doesnt know,he figures it out....love it. Thanks mat

For an extra 80k you could of had a 2020 hurricane evo in the UK for sale on PistonHeads atm. I've watch the whole build from day 1 on Matt's channel and am always impressed with him and his Dad how they manage to rebuild all these high end cars, especially the M5 Competition he did, what a beautiful car and what an amazing job he did on it. Will always follow his rebuilds and hope for the best for him and his channel. ❤

Guys just aquick note on these „fire extinguishers“ from element. They dont work at all. Please carry a traditional one in your car. You will thank me once you really need it..

Mat channel is next level! The excitement from his joy is just pure awesomeness!

Me looking at the intro picture: uhh you know the engin is in the back right? 🤣 The amount of times I've found cables direct mounted to the battery without fuse or the fuse at the wrong place is incredible, and makes you wonder why there are no more car fires.

What a lovely guy 😊 well done for pushing through and making it run

Hope y'all do a follow up story with his GT3 now that he's on the tail end of it. Such a good personality that makes it extremely entertaining to watch his builds.

A harsh lesson learnt here for Mat, but great resilience and perseverance in rebuilding that engine and getting it running. It truly is a dream car and you can’t fault him for jumping at the opportunity. Shame on those shady sellers though. Hope Mat completes the project and enjoys that car to the fullest

I’ve been a subscriber of Mat’s for ages. His channel is entertaining and inspiring. I don’t recall Mat ever mentioning the name of the experience day company on his channel and he doesn’t in this video, but some of the commenters have mentioned a name. In case it’s just rumour I won’t mention the name but I had wondered whether it might be that one. I had an experience day with them a few years ago and when I came to drive my final car of the day, a McLaren MP4-12C, before we set out onto the track I noticed a tyre pressure warning light was showing. The instructor I was with was a sound enough chap but gave me some story about a faulty sensor that they couldn’t fix because they do their own maintenance. It was against my better judgement, but I went out anyway because I didn’t want to miss out on the experience, which turned out to be great.

There has to be a storage chip on the old instrument cluster - find out what chip and pull it and send it to a data recovery specialists

This is the video series that got me into his channel. Now I watch it with the family.

Great interview

the energy that this guy have!!! amazing! thanks for all the amazing work!

Gonna be real cool seeing Matt an the Merci on the Gumball . Also the way he fit right in with Freddy an Jack in Florida for his gt3 build .. it's been great for all us auto RU-vid fans ..

Can’t believe how upbeat Mat was in all the rebuild videos 🙌🏻 top man 🤟🏻

You have to tell everyone the name of the Track experience company so we’ll never go there or suggest people not to go there. We should not support dishonest people. Congratulations for the rebuilding. You guys are fantastic. Say hello to your dad, I love when he laugh out loud.

Need to go back and grab the yellow one as well 🔥👌🏼🙏🏼

i'm glad i watched this as i thought we had all the details from Matts channel, seems there was more!

I was also going to buy a former track day car from the same company Matt bought his from for my RU-vid channel Cormac on cars as I’m also based in Leicestershire! However their prices are far too high for what they are asking, as the car have no service history and are also in bad condition. If their prices were more realistic I would have bought a project car off them. I think I will stick to buying showroom condition cars 👍

#2 on trending in the UK! Amazing.

Love that Matt has come so far and now to see him on vin wiki and in the company of Freddy and alike is amazing can't wait for gumball ..well done lads

Great story of a man and his Dad and a car with character, love it

I’ve been following Mat for a hot minute! So happy to see him here! 🎉🎉❤🎉🎉

Can't fault Matt. If from UK and seem to mainly follow us channels yet Matt is one brit I love to follow. Have to say he's gone from strength to strength. Great to have him on your channel!

I’m sure I’m you haggled and left they would have crawled back, 7 years of being stored and it never moved. I’m watching the rebuild and previous ones, always well put together videos and great content!

Man, that track experience company should be taken to court!!

Got introduced to him through his rebuild of the Adams GT3 and have really loved all of his content!

Surely with all the evidence i.e. the videos of the rebuild, there is enough for a civil court claim against the seller? How much did they want for the orange one?

Mat is fast becoming one of my favourite RU-vidrs. Great content, regular and well edited

I love following Matt. He seems like such a nice guy and a hard worker.

I love Matt always positive and laughing in very disappointing moments

OMG, your doing Gumball, Oh I'm up for seeing this, looking forward to the videos, Rj in Oz

This is the best VinWiki car stories I’ve seen, since I’ve been following this rebuild from scratch. The full backstory adds so much more to the ongoing saga 😂

Never miss an episode, watching from Joburg, ZA

Great story, you should have him on more often

"If it doesn't make it no hard feelings, we'll rebuild it again!" Said like a true gear head! LOL Good Luck!

Good on you Mat. Hope a certain track day company get to see this and how a professional deals with issues. Car is sick as mate.

Amazing last week my Reanult Scenic 02 , plugged 74,0000 ..Go Siggy !

Mat reminds us that being a hard worker is not only the key to success, but also makes being a good (and sane) person easier. Rather than spending time and energy on having been wronged, he (after what I imagine were a few profanity-laden conversations with his team) just got on with the damn thing - which, at the end of the day, is all anyone can do really.

Mat may have been ripped off by the people who sold him the car but the rebuild has been some of the best content on YT plus it got his dad involved a lot more in the channel which is great. Some people would have seen it as a disaster but Mat turned the whole thing into a triumph, he's that kind of positive energy personality I suppose.

Can likely recover the mileage from the onboard EEPROM of the old cluster, even if the cluster is not functional. Doubtful that any EEPROM would have be damaged by overvoltage / reverse polarity - the voltage regulation hardware which supplies it would have been damaged instead. Reading most EEPROMs are easy to do, either in-circuit or after removing the IC. Plenty of automotive electrical companies out there who can do it.

Good luck on Gumball and I hope you keep the Lambo for many, many years to come. I followed the whole reconstruction and all the respect to you and your loved ones that you managed to reach where you are.

The scale of the build. The timelines of the progress. And the outcome to date...is fantastic. This Merci has just GOT to make it to the start of the GumBall!! LoL...

May and his dad reminds me of Goonzquad and their dad 😂

Big fan! Mat armstrong..

How many Subscribers did Matt have before the Murcielago? The people who robbed him also gave him just that thing that blew his channel up, the kicker being Matt deserves it. Genuinely nice lad obviously loving what he is doing whilst spending a load of time with his old man and setting up their future. And we get to enjoy watching it happen. HWBT

Everyman racing in the mud